From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 01:43:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B90216A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:43:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jail1.krisk.org (www.krisk.org [68.254.74.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CC243D31 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:43:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@krisk.org) Received: from [192.168.0.97] (kris.kielhof.com [192.168.0.97]) (authenticated bits=0) by jail1.krisk.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBN1hXlQ002885 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:43:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kris@krisk.org) Message-ID: <41CA22D0.4060104@krisk.org> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:43:44 -0600 From: Kristian Kielhofner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RL References: <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:43:35 -0000 RL wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > >>RL wrote: >> >>>Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell >>>420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a >>>hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java >>>and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from >>>scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes >>>with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to >>>clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would >>>kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? >>> >>>Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. >>>_______________________________________________ >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >>I hope you saw that the SC420 is going for under $250 right now! >>Anyways, you could always try to manually partition the new drive (in >>the 420) install the bootloader, and then rsync everything over. I have >>done that many times with FreeBSD and Linux, and as long as you have a >>kernel that supports the HD controllers on both, you should be fine. A >>FreeBSD live cd should help, but you don't necessarily need it. >> >>-- >>Kristian Kielhofner >> > > > Yeah that is about what I got it for (actually over $300.) Now would > ghosting it (with g4u) work? I'm thinking I might have a lot of > issues because stuff was compiled for an Athlon and I'm moving to a > P4. Hmm... What did you get in it? Anyways, you could use g4u, but I really think that the rsync method will be faster and more reliable anyways. If your binaries have been compiled for Athlon then you could have some problems on a P4. That is why I compile everything for 686 - I know that it is going to work no matter what recent processor I put it on, and I am not much of a believer in "optimizing". You could rebuild the system and them portupgrade -aRr (after you modify /etc/make.conf, of course). -- Kristian Kielhofner